Introduction: Hacks #95-100

You’re wondering how the heck to get all the “stuff” from the old
PC to the new one. Unless you’ve got all of the installation disks for
your software and want to reinstall all of it—and have backed up
datafiles to another tape, CD, disk, or network—you’ve got a big chore
ahead.

The next series of hacks presents applications you can use to copy
files, settings, and even some applications from one PC to
another.

Previous chapters showed you dozens of ways to tune up a PC, and
of course you’ll apply the most appropriate hacks to this new PC. You
built it, configured it, got it set up just the way you like it, and you
probably don’t want all that work on your new PC to go to waste. The
programs and data you work with are invaluable to your life and your
occupation. Leaving them and your whole PC at risk makes as much sense
as leaving your car or home unlocked in a high-crime neighborhood. The
Internet is as much a “friendly global village” as it is a seething
hotbed of malicious activity covering everything from questionable
marketing methods to multimillion dollar identity theft and fraud
....